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The Italian Historical Magazines for Guitar & similar instruments)

I listed in the following only the historical Italian magazines for guitar and similar instruments, no longer published.
The list is not ordered in a chronological nor alphabetic order, but magazines are ordered by importance, starting from the older ones.
Maybe there are still errors of datation, as the work still in progress. Please advice me of any corrections, please, and I will add your name to the list of acknowledgements.

Marco Bazzotti


Remark: The number in bracket [] refers to the Bibliography
1. IL PLETTRO - periodico mensile - Bollettino dei Mandolinisti e Chitarristi (1906-1942)

This monthly mandolin and guitar was published in two periods: the first at early 20th-century, the second from 1938 to 1942 or 1943 [see 13]. I was edited in Milan, founded and headed by Cav. Mo. Alessandro Vizzari ("Director owner"). The editor was M. A. Amadei. The magazine was printed in Lodi by the renowned printer Biancardi.
“Il Plettro”, in its monthly edition, was also listed as the official organ of the Italian Mandolin Federation (F.M.I.).
Il Plettro - periodico musicale - Bollettino dei mandolinisti e chitarristi. Direttore A. Vizzari, Milano
2. LA CHITARRA - Rivista di cultura musicale (1933-1942)

Monthly literary magazine musical, directed by Benvenuto Terzi (for the literary part) and Riccardo Vaccari (for the musical part). Some important names in the guitar world including Di Ponio, E. Pujol, M. Llobet and A. Segovia collaborated with it.
The magazine was sponsoring the "Guitar Days" and the first dictionary of Italian violin makers and guitarists.
It was published from 1934 to 1942. It was closed as a result of war.
La Chitarra - Year 4, Issue 3, cover
3. LŽArte CHITARRISTICA - Rivista di cultura musicale (1947-1957)

Music culture magazine founded in 1947, edited by Bèrben in Modena, and directed by the famous scholar Romolo Ferrari. Its important in the history of the guitar is today testified by the Annual Meeting "Romolo FerrariŽs Day" held in Modena, his birthplace.
LŽArte Chitarristica - Year 1, issue no. 1, cover
4. La Chitarra - piccola rivista di canto popolare (1912-1919)

Magazine published in Florence today unknown. Not to be confused with the one bearing the same title, published twenty-one years later in Bologna.
6. IL MANDOLINISTA ITALIANO - Periodico Mensile di Musica per Mandolino, Mandola e Chitarra (1922-?)

Magazine published in Milan by A. Monzino & Sons. It issued several ensemble music with guitar and solo works, often already published from the publisher A. Monzino, including a work by Pasquale Taraffo (Stefania - Marcia in the issue no. 1, January 1922). It costed L.1, subscription L.10.
7. IL MANDOLINO ROMANO - periodico mensile di scelta musica per mandolino e chitarra (1907-1910)

Nowadays unknown magazine. It published music by Carlo Munier. In 1909 its director was the famous mandolinist and guitarist Giuseppe Branzoli.
Il Mandolino Romano - Year 1, issue 12, cover
8. IL PLETTRO ITALIANO - periodico mensile di cultura musicale (1948-1953)

News-magazines of musical culture, published in Bergamo (its seat was in XX Settembre Str., no.7) during the Fifthies and directed by Antonio Misto. It contained also the Notiziario della F.I.P. and Italian Mandolin Societies. Benvenuto Terzi cooperated with it since its very beginning.
Il Mandolino Romano - Year 1, issue 1, cover
9. IL CHITARRISTA - Periodico quindicinale di scelta musica per chitarra (1900-?)

Music Magazine, published in Turin (P.za Castello 22), by Gustavo Gori (see the Il Mandolinista [13] e Nuova Musica [14]) around the Ž900. We could not find other sources of information other then this image inside [13].
Giornali musicali editi dallŽeditore Gori di Torino
10. IL CHITARRISTA - ? (1950-?)

Nowadays unknown magazine, his birth in Messina (Sicily) under the direction of Mo. G. Farrauto is mentioned in the issue no. 19 of LŽArte chitarristica (p. 4). We could not find other sources of information. Perhaps the title is inspired by the famous Russian magazine "Gitarist" published in 1904-1906.
11. IL CONCERTO - Giornale di musica per mandolino e chitarra (1896-1934)

Magazine published in Bologna, by Comellini. It is quoted in [12] and [15] of Bibliography.
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Il Concerto, Giornale di musica per mandolino e chitarra. Album-Premio
12. IL MANDOLINO, Torino. (1906-1943)

Magazine unknown today, is quoted in [12]. Its director was G. Monticone.
Il mandolino 1901, 261
13. IL MANDOLINISTA - Periodico quindicinale di scelta musica per mandolini e chitarra (1897-?)

Magazine published in Turin, by Gustavo Gori, starting from 1900.
Il mandolinista, issue no. 7, Year XI, 1908 - Periodico quindicinale di scelta musica per mandolini e chitarra - Publisher G. Gori in Turin
14. NUOVA MUSICA - Pubblicazione quindicinale per mandolino, violino, mandola, flauto e chitarra (1900-1910)

Publication for mandolin, fiddle, mandola, flute and guitar (approx. 1900), published in Turin in the early 20th-century, led by the famous guitarist-composer Ermengildo Carosio (1886-1928). We could not find other sources of information other then this image inside [13].
Nuova musica - Pubblicazione quindicinale del repertorio di Ermenegildo Carosio - editore Gori di Torino
15. LA SERENATA - Giornale di musica per mandolino e chitarra (1897-?)

Magazine for music of mandolin and guitar. It is practically unknown today, due also to its short life.
16. MANDOLINISMO - Periodico di scelta musica per mandolino e chitarra (1921-1958)

Luchsingen, C. Notari, 1921– 1958.
17. VITA MANDOLINISTICA - periodico di musica per mandolini con accompagnamento di chitarra o pianoforte (1901-?)

Magazine directed by prof. Sarho Gargano. It was published in Bologna by the Cocchi Brothers, starting from 1901. It contained music ensemble of mandolins and guitar by Alessandro Vizzari, Ettore e Ermenegildo Carosio (1866-1928) as well as many today unknown authors (Joseph Sgallari, Achille Sardo, Antonio de Beaumont, Marius Ploner, Domenico De Giovanni, Leo Chiti, C.A. Bracco, Teofilo De Angelis, Ernesto Rossi, Raffaele Romano, Adolfo Sarcoli, Francesco Tentarelli, Carlo Vizzari, Vincenzino Guarniera, Armando Minicucci, Letterio Barbera)
18. ESTUDIANTINA : periodico quindicinale per mandolino, mandola e chitarra (1922-?)

Fortnightly magazine edited by Abraham Allione (1895-1982) in Turin. The magazine addressed both the classical and pop music. According to it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramo_Allione the magazine was founded already in 1912 by Mr. Allione at his return to Italy after the death of his father. The copy of issue no.1 has no date, but all libraries date it by 15 July 1922.
Estudiantina No. 1, Rosas sopra le onde
19. NOTIZIARIO DELLŽESTUDIANTINA BERGAMASCA (1946-?)

Published in Bergamo, in the Tipography Conti, starting from 1946
20. CHITARRA E MUSICA, notiziario mensile dellŽAssociazione Chitarristica Italiana (1948-1980)

Monthly newsletter of A.C.I. (Italian Guitar Society), was issued since 1948 to 1965 approx.
Since 1965, it became an annex contained in the magazine Strumenti e musica, issued in Ancona and headed by Bio Boccosi since 1948 to 1980 approximately.
21. NOTIZIARIO TECNICO PROFESSIONALE DELLŽACCADEMIA DELLA CHITARRA CLASSICA (1970-1986)

Magazine published in Milan and directed by Prof. Vincenzo Degni. It lasted since 1970 to 1986. The magazine was tied a major prize guitar that took place at the International Music (SIM) in Milan, every year (at the beginning of September) in the old Milan fair.
NOTIZIARIO TECNICO PROFESSIONALE DELLŽACCADEMIA DELLA CHITARRA CLASSICA, issue no. 1, July 1970
22. BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DEL LIUTO (1991-1999)

Quarterly, with printed text. The Italian Society of Lute (SIL) was founded in June 1990 with the aim of "promoting musical culture with particular reference to the lute and the like instruments." Website: http://www.faradic.net/~skorpios/sil/
23. I QUADERNI DELLŽATENEO (1986-1991)

Magazine born in Milan, founded by Mauro Storti, who founded in 1978 the Guitar Atheneum in collaboration with the Milan section of Musical Youth of Italy. It will then be continued by the new editor Filippo Michelangeli, with the name Seicorde.
I Quaderni dellŽAteneo, Year 1, issue no. 0
24. IL MAESTRO DI CHITARRA (1998-2000)

Quarterly magazine born in Milan, founded by Mauro Storti in 1998, as a bulletin of the learning center "Hour of the Guitar." Nine issues are known; they comprised some sheets in A5 format.
Il Maestro di Chitarra - Bollettino trimestrale di formazione informazione e controinformazione del Centro Didattico LŽOra di Chitarra, anno I, n. 0 - dicembre 1998

Acknowledgements

I am in debt with Vincenzo Pocci, who assisted me in this project and suggested many items in the bibliography, Francesco Russo and the members of the group "Vecchie riviste chitarrristiche '900 storico" in the network Facebook.

Bibliography

  1. Anna Compagnoni, "LŽArte Chitarristica" in il Fronimo no. 48, pp. 22-36, July 1984.
  2. Giacomo Parimbelli, Le riviste chitarristiche italiane del primo Ž900, Guitart, anno X, July/September 2007 pp. 14-15.
  3. Benvenuto Terzi, Giacomo Parimbelli, Dizionario dei chitarristi e liutai italiani (414 Pagine), Edizioni Villadiseriane (BG), 2008.
  4. Giacomo Parimbelli, Libri e riviste del chitarrista nel primo novecento (relation held during the International Day of Studies "Romolo Ferrari and the Italian Guitar in the first half of Twentieth Century"), Modena, 2008-03-01, national Academy of Sciences Letters ↦ Arts
  5. Giacomo Parimbelli, Liuto e chitarra a Bergamo nei secoli - Benvenuto Terzi Edizioni Villadiseriate, 2005, 320 pagg.
  6. Giovanni Intelisano, Mozzani: un liutaio e la sua arte - Arts & Crafts, 1990, 297 pp.
  7. WorldCat, Search of guitar--periodicals\' > \'Italian\'
  8. Ozaki Music Library, in Japanese
  9. Paul Sparks The Classical Mandolin, Oxford University Press US, 1995, pp. 207
  10. Antonio Carlini - Momenti musicali per mandolino e chitarra nell’Italia d’inizio ‘900, in Plectrum No. 3, 2006, pp. 22-24
  11. Works for mandoline Mandolino Sinfonico di Sapporo, in Japanese/English
  12. Agostino Pisani, Manuale teorico-pratico per lo studio della chitarra (Manuali Hoepli), 2a Ediz., Ulrico Hoepli, Milano 1923 (ristampa anastatica Cisalpino Goliardica, Milano 1989).
  13. Cum Notis Variorum: The Newsletter of the Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
  14. SIL - Società Italiana del Liuto website
  15. Italian National Catalog of Periodicals ACNP, researches from the website of Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna
  16. Bibliographical files of Guitar Magazines: Index SBN, from source: Www.InternetCulturale.it
  17. Il Mandolino Romano, Anno I No. 11: Reverie per mandolino e chitarra, by Carlo Munier (1856-1911)

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